What Is Temple of Torment?

Temple of Torment stages a genuine battle between light and darkness, with Ra represented by heavenly swirling clouds on one side of the grid and Anubis looming out of a dark, stormy backdrop on the other. Towering stone ruins crumble under divine fury as the storm brews, giving the whole presentation an atmosphere that reviewers consistently praise, even if some note it's not the most eccentric release in Hacksaw's wider catalog.

The grid runs on a 5-reel, 4-row layout with 14 fixed paylines, where 3 or more matching symbols landing left to right form a win. Ankhs, scarab beetles and other classic Egyptian iconography fill the reels alongside the two warring deities.

The Golden Scarab Wild

The Golden Scarab Wild is the game's central mechanic: each instance can expand upward or downward through the reel it occupies, provided the expansion actually creates a winning combination. The genuine payoff comes when a Golden Scarab expands through a regular Wild symbol along its path — doing so attaches a multiplier as high as x200 directly to that win, turning what would otherwise be a modest combination into something considerably more substantial.

Anguish of Anubis and Reign of Ra

Two bonus rounds sit behind the game's natural trigger. Anguish of Anubis increases the frequency of both regular Wilds and Golden Scarab Wilds compared to base play, and crucially, every regular Wild that lands during this round stays sticky for its duration — a genuinely valuable structural advantage over standard free spins. Reign of Ra takes a different approach entirely: every Golden Scarab Wild multiplier activated during the round adds directly to a single global win multiplier, letting a hot sequence compound its value across the entire bonus rather than resetting with each spin.

Reign of Ra can be bought directly for 200x the stake, pushing the effective RTP to 96.30%. Reaching the full 10,000x max win ends the round immediately and awards the payout outright.

RTP, Volatility and the Realistic Odds

Default RTP is 96.22%, with 94.13%, 92.21% and 88.22% configurations also available depending on the operator. Volatility is rated medium (3 out of 5) on Hacksaw's own scale, and hit frequency of 27% translates to a win roughly every 3 to 4 spins, a genuinely approachable rhythm for a slot with a five-figure ceiling.

The 10,000x max win comes with a published probability of roughly 1 in 16.5 million spins, achieved through sustained Golden Scarab multiplier activity, most reliably during Reign of Ra. Bets run $0.10 to $100 per spin.

Our Verdict

Temple of Torment is a well-crafted, if not groundbreaking, entry in Hacksaw's Egyptian mythology catalog — the studio has genuine experience building slots in this exact space, most memorably with Hand of Anubis, and it shows in how confidently the Golden Scarab expansion and multiplier system come together. The medium volatility rating with a 27% hit frequency makes the game's substantial 10,000x ceiling feel like a realistic goal rather than a distant fantasy, and having Anguish of Anubis and Reign of Ra offer genuinely different strategic approaches to that same ceiling gives sustained play real variety. A solid, atmospheric pick for players who want Hacksaw's polish without the studio's harshest volatility.

Where to play it

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